About John E. Scates

John Scates is an experienced mechanical engineer, skilled in product design, research, and manufacturing with 20+ years of industry experience. The application of this experience often provides valuable insight in design refinement, and product liability/defect claims.

Specific areas of interest include hurricane-resistant construction of garage doors, rolling doors, and automatic pedestrian doors. Litigation issues have focused on identifying the root source of property damage caused by the release of water into the home/building, and injury related to door products.